Hello everyone,
I've been working on getting decent hardware 2D/3D acceleration and video decoding on my PowerMac G4 MDD. My goal is to keep the stock Radeon 9000 PRO AGP card for OS 9, macOS X, and MorphOS, while using a newer PCI card for Linux.
After testing several NVIDIA cards with little success, a Radeon HD 5450 PCI arrived in the mail today. Wow, what a difference! I've already managed to accomplish some of those goals.
There's still a lot of testing to do, I'd like to try with Debian as well, but I wanted to share this small victory with the community. Details are below with more to come!
I've been working on getting decent hardware 2D/3D acceleration and video decoding on my PowerMac G4 MDD. My goal is to keep the stock Radeon 9000 PRO AGP card for OS 9, macOS X, and MorphOS, while using a newer PCI card for Linux.
After testing several NVIDIA cards with little success, a Radeon HD 5450 PCI arrived in the mail today. Wow, what a difference! I've already managed to accomplish some of those goals.
There's still a lot of testing to do, I'd like to try with Debian as well, but I wanted to share this small victory with the community. Details are below with more to come!
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